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Lille Metropole 2020 World Design Capital Les Press Kit usages du monde Ice Stupa Glacier Ladakh, Inde © Sonam Wangchuk An original production by Lille Metropole 2020, World Design Capital Hosted as part of the Fall Saint Sauveur edition with lille3000 LILLE METROPOLE 2020 WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL The European Metropolis of Lille succeeded Turin, Seoul, connect socially despite lockdown, mobilising collective intelli- Helsinki, Cape Town, Taipei and Mexico City as World Design gence, waking up to our responsibility to our ecosystem and our Capital in 2020. Since 2008, the title of World Design Capital© dependence on it, and restoring the public interest and public is awarded every two years by the World Design Organization actors. By anticipating these ‘proofs of concept’ before the crisis, (WDO), it recognizes cities for their effective use of design to we were already preparing for the world after the crisis before drive economic, social, cultural, and environmental develop- we saw it coming. ment. And now we are more ready than we thought possible! New The World Design Capital is back to business after a few weeks Ways of the World, Sens Fiction, la manufacture : a labour of off the radar following the unprecedented and unexpected public Love, and Designer(s) du Design, the main exhibitions in our health crisis, which forced us to push back our long-planned programme were already shaping a new world and highlighting activities. During this unusual period, POC project leaders, desi- the need for urgent action even before the pandemic. Now they gners, exhibition curators, Maison POC organisers, businesses, should be seen and experienced more widely than ever. But associations and communities involved with the World Design this new order demands an alternative approach. Our Maison Capital have not stopped planning, designing and imagining POCs and exhibitions are the laboratories for this new world. their comeback. The curators are rethinking them along these lines. We want We have put together a denser and more compact programme to see more exchanging of best practices, debate, learning, that will be presented from 9 September to 15 November 2020 and merging of forums dedicated to the imagination and the so that the key elements already designed and produced can be construction of ‘halycon days’. We can expect new ways of shared, talked about and put to the test. Partner exhibitions are doing things since face-to-face gatherings will be challenging gradually reopening and will continue to do so through to 2021. and perhaps still subject to lockdown measures. Design is a The World Design Capital 2020 will be more than a simple means to resilience, renewable energy, the common good. To ‘postponed’ version of the spring and summer programme we plan for sustainability in a post-COVID world, we need to look had planned. The return will be more than just a digital reset. to many disciplines, all of which have something to offer: from The circumstances are completely different. We need to change philosophy and economics to history, ecology and technology. the ‘programme’ by re-examining both content and form in a As this necessarily interdisciplinary research is pursued, design post-COVID context. Lille Metropole 2020 was conceived and has specific strengths that can benefit us all: empathy for human- built around values and challenges that are crucial for living and kind and for the planet—with which it is inextricably linked; moving forward in the best way possible, since isn’t the very creativity—we need to think way outside the box; the pursuit essence of design the capacity to anticipate the future. Our of cross-fertilisation—our major exhibitions are a testament to Maison POCs—Caring, Collaborative City, Housing, Circular this; the experimental method; the willingness to do something Economy and Public Action—are all founded on the ideas of and come up with concrete solutions, above and beyond orders local stakeholders. from on high and core values, at the same time as imagining They propose solutions at a time when we are rediscovering the future behaviours. importance of looking out for others, thinking up new ways to 2 LES USAGES LES USAGES LES USAGES LES USAGES DU MONDE DU MONDE DU MONDE ПРАКТИКИ NEW WAYS NEW WAYS OF THE WORLD OF THE WORLD OF THE WORLD 7. INTRODUCTION 9. CARING FOR THE WORLD 10. EMPOWER YOURSELF 12. AN EXHIBITION 60 CONTRIBUTIONS 17. EXHIBITION LAYOUT 20. EXTRACTS 26. VISUALS 28. EXHIBITION CURATORSHIP 31. INFORMATIONS 1 2 1_Chez Chedad et sa femme Lalla / Adrar, Ouadane, Mauritanie 2018 © Ferhat Bouda / Agence VU’ 2_Coastal motifs / Ofunato bay – Iwate prefectureTohoku, Japon 2016 © Tadashi Ono / La Villa 3_Food / Agro care, Wieringermeer, Middenmeer, Pays-Bas 2012 © Henk Wildschut 6 THE WAYS OF THE WORLD New Ways of the World explores design approaches for inhabited space relating to different spatial and temporal aspects of life: finding somewhere to live, moving from one place to another, eating, consuming, working, going to school, being connected, travelling, going to the cinema, reading, interacting with others, dreaming, and so on. Design is an art that deals with how we relate to things. It’s about how we relate to modes of use, to the environment, to time and space, to other people, and to the world at large. New Ways of the World is both determinedly critical and optimistic. It provides numerous alternative responses to the ways in which the Earth is being made less inhabitable. The projects presented are promising signs that new conditions for global inhabitability can be created in which the notions of otherness and fairness play a decisive role. Each project is designed as a built solution. Though distinct from one another, these initiatives have in common a strong sense of commitment on the part of those implementing them. The current crisis puts our social and economic resilience to the test in three interconnec- ted dimensions: the individual, the collective and the political. It also opens up new perspectives. It invites us to reflect upon how to provide people with alternative inhabitable space, and it encourages us to give the economy a new meaning by reactivating its roots in the oikos, the art of good housekeeping: not the stewardship of the finance-driven world, which exhausts its resources and destroys the living environment, but that of the world as a shared dwelling place. The exhibition invites us to ‘cultivate our garden’, in the words of Voltaire’s Candide, by taking care of the Earth, its air and its water, for ALL of its inhabitants, with both modesty and courage. In this regard, New Ways of the World testifies to our ability to build the best possible inhabitable space in the age of the Anthropocene. Francine Fort director of arc en rêve centre d’architecture New Ways of the World is an original production of Lille Metropole 2020 World Design Capital curated by arc en rêve centre d’architectureand hosted as part of the Fall Saint Sauveur edition with lille3000 at Gare Saint Sauveur in Lille from September 9th to November 8th 2020 NEW WAYS OF THE WORLD Lille Metropole 2020 World Design Capital / exhibition 09 09 2020 > 08 11 2020 7 8 House on cooled lava / United States, Hawaï, 2015 © John Sanphillippo CARING FOR THE WORLD Fabienne Brugère, philosopher We are vulnerable humans. The Covid 19 pandemic has made this Alternative ways of living in the world are the opposite of violent fragility, which many of had forgotten, more visible. Death suddenly world domination. They involve consideration for the place where seems closer to us all. We are afraid. Viruses, erupting volca- we live, breathe, and work: we need to make the world our own noes, tsunamis, wars, nuclear accidents, chronic drought, climate without owning it; we need to be weavers instead of colonists, change and the loss of biodiversity are evils we all face—all the gathering together and shaping the threads of different cultures, more poignantly because the actions of humans have irreversible living alongside non-human organisms and “composing” worlds, impacts on the natural world. The world has suddenly grown old. in the words of Philippe Descola. Financialised capitalism had led us to the edge of the abyss. Are wear, damage and harm not the watchwords of global circulation? Solutions are being invented, and will continue to be invented The wellbeing of the few is achieved at the cost of countless other humans struggling to survive. Voltaire defended the idea that after a life of trials and tribulations, Candide, Cunégonde and others had no choice but to “cultivate Has the world become irremediably squalid ? their garden” and to invent a small society that would meet their needs. Everything is both local and global. New approaches in In this chronicle of a planetary death foretold, we can neverthe- a constrained environment support a new way of conceiving the less glimpse a glimmer of hope, the flicker of a dawning utopia: world. They take shape with the framework of a design. For Italian the possibility of finding alternative ways to inhabit the Earth. We Renaissance artist, disegno was both a drawing and a project, are forced to invent a more respectful way of living in the world, an outline and an intention. Today’s Renaissance involves, as whether we call it sustainability, frugality or justice. well as caring for the world, a new design for the world: a way of making it liveable. If the way we inhabit a space or of resolving It is time to take care of the planet a situation can be said to resemble an artist’s drawing, it also points to another meaning of the word design: an idea that is The notion of care refers to actions that are necessary to ensure able to reshape everything.

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